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This drawing on white paper with run-on linear written letterforms achieves a geometric image through changes in the color of the inks used to generate the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This piece was commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Miglietta writes in an accompanying letter that the most important sign of sickness is shortness of breath. In this picture, he depicts breathing as a diamond shape which becomes smaller from outward inward as breathing shortens owing to environmental damage present on earth and in air, such as smoke, toxins, wasteful consumerism etc. In hundreds of cells, he writes the names, causes and possible causes of these insults. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Miglietta writes the Sackners that he considers breathing as a metaphor for origins of the universe (implosion and explosion). He depicts a white lifeline for the sky, earth or man and breathing as an infinite succession of diamond shapes. The blue color indicates sky, green earth, and red men, all bound to the harmonious lifeline in which is written "live together." A surrounding, infinite grille symbolizes ideas beyond his comprehension. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The major part of this drawing consists of conventional handwriting of a tautologic text on white paper that comprises about eighty percent of the work. Miglietta has placed a square shaped intersecting micrographic grid diagonally over part of this text. The remainder of the drawing consists of rows of red written letterformed linear text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue depicts three visual poetic images before Miglietta began his micrographic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The multicolored images consist of a grid depicting objects stacked on the shelves of a supermarket, viz., bottles, boxes, paper rolls, glasses etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is two sided drawing with an identical image done in different color schemes. Miglietta's photographs of the two images is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This main image of this drawing is a series of concentric black and red circles formed from text with written letterforms. The upper and lower borders depict linear text. This drawing was not titled by Miglietta. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Thirty of the 36 pqges are visual poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This drawing that was done on translucent paper consists of grids of labyrinths composed of text and abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The drawing consists of a grid of 4 x 8 images drawn mostly in red and to a lesser extent in black ink. Each drawing is numbered as if planned for pages of a book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The prints are detailed drawings of urban landscapes of the poet's town with buildings, trees, figures, fields created with micrographic text. Two essays on the poetry of Enzo Migletta were written by Stelio Maria Martini, Gino Pisano and Davide Manc. Mention is made that Miglietta's work can be found in the Sackner Archive among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.